Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1914 — Rural Delivery for Better Roads. [ARTICLE]

Rural Delivery for Better Roads.

The large crops and high prices of farm products for the past 20 years, together with the general prosperity of the whole country, tend to increase the desir.e for the good' things of this world, and affords more leisure tp enjoy what we have. The increased number of people who rfde over the couuntry for either pleasure or business to say nothing of the driving required by the great system of rural delivery which has so recently been have created a pressing demand fi?om one tend of the country to the other for a better grade of -highways than have heretofore been dreamed of. Some roads will be built by the national government and others by the States, but the counties will always be the greatest promoters and builders of good roads. Some States are already spending millions on their highways. Massachusetts appropriated $25,000,000 a few years ago for that purpose and now has many r iles of beautiful roads as smooth as asphalt pavement. All Europe abounds in fine roads; but they have been at it for centuries, and have learned the art to perfection. It may take generations it put all our roads in"as good condition as they are abroad, but we have made the beginning, and each year will doubtless show much progress- as a whole.